The Bottom Line
On Ghost Repeater, however, with Bo Ramsey producing and Kris Delmhorst on backing vocals, among other great players, Foucault leaves his listeners with no room to complain.
- "Americans in Corduroys"
- "Ghost Repeater"
- "One Part Love"
- "One For Sorrow"
- "Train to Jackson"
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Description
- Another collection of fabulous story-songs from one of the best songwriters around these days.
- Bo Ramsey, Kris Delmhorst, Chris Heywood, and other great players.
- Beautiful and haunting from start to finish.
Guide Review - Jeffrey Foucault - Ghost Repeater
Foucault is a Dylanesque poet, whose songs can seem like nonsense if you're not listening closely enough. He so quickly moves from image to image that a haphazard listener can easily get lost.
Ghost Repeater, though, is full of great stories. You feel as though you've fallen into a different world, where lyrics liken themselves to the words of great poets, and the melody almost passes for something you've heard before.
Jeffrey Foucault's prior work has been more about sadder moments, whereas Ghost Repeater sounds more hopeful. The love songs are about everyday things like marriage ("One for Sorrow"), friendship ("Tall Grass in Old Virginny"), and how it feels to be stuck alone in a Mexican bar in the desert when your lover is somewhere back home ("Mesa, Arizona").
The backup players that join Foucault on this album range from great songwriters in their own right (Kris Delmhorst) to folk-blues guitar legends (Bo Ramsey, who also produces), to just plain incredible players (Chris Heywood).
There are so many wonderful things about this record – from the way Foucault sings his lyrics, to the marriage of folk, blues, pop, and atmospheric bacground music – that there really is something for everyone in every earnest tale.
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